The UK star was a popular Love Island contestant. Picture: InstagramSource:Instagram

She exchanged a series of Instagram messages with friend Sondeep Gill before the pair spoke for nearly an hour on the phone in the early hours of June 20 last year.

Sophie said Paul “had been there for so many people and he had stopped her from taking her own life”.

“I cannot do this any more I struggle every day with my ADD (attention deficit disorder),” she told Sondeep.

“I would never want to do that to my family but if I could escape I would. I cannot believe I am telling you this.

“I have been struggling with the world; no one knows why or how.”

The phone suddenly went dead at 2.40am, and Sondeep’s messages went unanswered after that point.

“Her speech was slurred, she was repeating herself a lot and during the conversation I was worried she sounded down so I tried to keep the conversation light and told her she should go to bed,” Sondeep told police.

The court heard Sophie had been prescribed the anti-depression drug Sertraline in 2013 — and that the drug was found in her system along with the alcohol and cocaine.

Toxicology tests showed she had a blood-alcohol reading of 201mg per 100ml of blood, about three times the legal driving limit, and she also tested positive for cocaine.

Aaron and Sophie also exchanged texts the day before her death that were “very general and loving in nature” while both were at home looking after their respective parents’ dogs.

But when he couldn’t contact Sophie the next day, Aaron became so worried he called his brother Ryan and the pair went together to her home in the village of Medburn near Newcastle, arriving about 7pm.

At first they threw stones up to Sophie’s bedroom window to get her attention, before Aaron peered through the living room window and saw his girlfriend was unconscious.

The brothers smashed their way in through a door before Aaron began performing CPR.

He continued for 15 minutes while Ryan spoke to the ambulance service, until it became clear Sophie was dead.